Mürzsteg Alps
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Highest peak | Hohe Veitsch ( 1981 m above sea level ) | |
location | Styria and Lower Austria | |
part of | Northern Alps | |
Classification according to | AVE 19 | |
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Coordinates | 47 ° 39 ′ N , 15 ° 24 ′ E |
The Mürzsteg Alps are a mountain group of the Eastern Alps ( Northern Alps ), which is located in Styria and, to a small extent, in Lower Austria . The highest mountain is the Hohe Veitsch ( 1981 m above sea level ) in the center of the group, the most extensive massif of which, however, is the Schneealpe ( 1903 m above sea level ) in the northwest near the Rax .
The Mürzsteg Alps are bordered by the Türnitz Alps in the north, the Gutenstein Alps in the northeast, the Rax-Schneeberg Group in the east, the peripheral mountains east of the Mur (especially the Fischbach Alps ) in the southeast and the Hochschwab in the west .
geology
The mountain group is part of the Styrian-Lower Austrian Limestone Alps and is delimited from the neighboring massifs by the Mürz Valley (= part of the tectonically still active Mur-Mürz Furche ), the upper reaches of the Mürz (main town Mürzsteg ) and the Seeberg pass road. Geologists refer to it as the threshold and basin facies.
Its rocks are mostly from the Triassic ( Hallstatt facies ) with Wetterstein limestone , Hallstatt limestone and Mürz Valley layers (dark, chert-bearing limestone and marl with foraminifera, brachiopods and other fossils ), while the neighboring Hochschwab (up to 2277 m above sea level ) also Has reef limestone .
With a strip up to 10 km wide, the south of the mountain group belongs to the Grauwackenzone (rocks from the Young Palaeozoic and Lower Triassic; Mürz Valley Alps ).
Refuges
- Graf-Meran-Haus ( ÖTK , 1836 m above sea level , on the plateau of the Hohe Veitsch )
- Grundbauernhütte (private, 1451 m above sea level , in the east of the Hohe Veitsch plateau)
- Schneealpenhaus (ÖAV, 1788 m above sea level , on the Schauerkogel / Schneealpe)
- Hinteralmhaus (formerly: Wiener-Lehrer-Hütte) ( ÖAV , 1450 m above sea level , north of the Schneealpe ) ( )
- Neuberger Hütte ( Friends of Nature , 1450 m above sea level , north of the Schneealpe) ( )
- Kutatschhütte ( 1700 m above sea level , open shelter of the PES on the Schneealpe)
- Lurgbauerhütte (private, 1764 m above sea level , on the plateau of the Schneealpe)
- Michlbauerhütte (private, 1744 m above sea level , on the plateau of the Schneealpe)
- Tonionhütte (friends of nature, 1487 m above sea level , on the Tonion )
- Kaarlhütte (private, 1310 m above sea level , west of Mürzzuschlag )
Long-distance hiking trails
The Mürzsteg Alps are crossed by the following long-distance hiking trails:
- North-south long-distance hiking trail 05
- North Alpine Trail 01
- Styrian Mariazellerweg 06
- European long-distance hiking trail E4 (alpine)
- European long-distance hiking trail E6
- Styrian regional hiking trail
- From the glacier to the wine